policies. >> aviva chomsky, thank you for being with us.er new book is, "undocumented: how immigration became illegal." professor at salem state -- salem state university in massachusetts. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. continueome back, we our discussion about reparations in america. stay with us. ♪ [music break] >> this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. we end today's show with the second part of our interview with famed essayist ta-nehisi coates talking about his explosive new essay called, "the case for reparations." the 16,000 word article is the cover story for the june issue of the atlantic magazine and is being credited for rekindling a national discussion on reparations for american slavery and institutional racism. >> in the piece, ta-nehisi coates exposes how slavery, jim crow segregation, and federally backed housing policy systematically robbed african-americans of their possessions and prevented them from accr

i can't explain chomsky. from my perspective, chomsky hates american and its constitutions. he would disagree with me. how am i supposed to make sense of of him or that? i can't. i just don't know how guys like him get tenure. well, actually, i do, because academia's full of people like that. but he can use whatever words he wants, i explain myself, and he can explain himself. >> host: janis is calling from smithfield, utah. hi, janis. >> caller: hi. first of all, mr. levin, i am a great admirer of yours. i think you're a national treasure. so don't let the kooks get you down. >> host: janis, why do you think he's a national treasure? >> caller: i think he's got so many things right and so many -- he's got a wonderful mind. [laughter] i just admire his wonderful mind. but there was one thing i wanted to ask him, and that is as a conservative i'm, i've been concerned about the division among conservatives not over goals, but over tactics. it seems to be kind of creating a fission that i think's going to be very detrimental in the success of the goals we all want to achieve su

curious to individuals such as dome chomsky question those to address the problems given the of loveof of pervasive a between them and they in ability with any politician or any branch of government to affect change on its own. i would also like to say to any fbi agents here to contribute to a great cause. [laughter] >> i don't think i am quite that grim about of prospect to affect some kind of positive change if elected day are inherent like elizabeth ward when she gets to washington where she wants to have the other democrats to make compromises are trade-offs but having someone like russ feingold to have hearings on issues even though every bill they he proposes fails is a real benefit to those working outside of the benefit was to have elizabeth warren growth regulators over oversight and going after to meet these people i don't want to overstate the use i am glad there is the elizabeth warren or russ feingold but i don't think any kind of meaningful change well even come from primarily within the of corrupted system from those of us who are not in it to take action and then it w

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there is a theory that noam chomsky and others have talked about that if you are a citizen of the countryyour first duty is to stand up and object to the wrongful governments as opposed to standing up over those which you have no influence. >> i understand that argument. >> it's the fact that the u.s. government is so far ahead of any other country in terms of capabilities and resource devotion. there's a reason why we are so far ahead. we spend $75 billion per year on the surveillance state. >> we've led the technology revolution. >> we created the internet. there's lots of different reasons. >> for you, the nsa was contrary to the spirit of the digital culture. what did you mean? >> the idea of the internet was that it would be this vast, free place that would equalize the playing field, liberate people and tear any of the only way it would really work as if we were able to express ourselves with privacy, coordinated and organize with our fellow citizens. what the nsa has done is converted the internet from this unprecedented zone of freedom into the most powerful means of surveillance

one winning journalist chris hedges and on paper whistleblower daniel ellsberg and author dr noam chomsky their failure to challenge a method of detention before the highest court in the land underscores yet again another massive erosion of the constitutional rights of all americans so joining me now to discuss everything and da reagan is that producer manual rob lowe many we've been kind of my big ring we've been covering this case since the beginning we went to new york to sit in on that. the hearings how did we get to this point and why on earth would the supreme court rejected appeal to hear one of most important cases regarding civil liberties right and i think the question of why the the because the supreme court doesn't have to give an answer as to why they're not going to hear they're not taking the case or not taking the case but the timeline of events between when this when the n.d.a. two thousand and twelve was signed into law on december thirty first two thousand and eleven till now is all very important and a very specific event that happens right in the middle where judge ka

potential a group of people including journalist chris hedges whistleblower daniel ellsberg and dr noam chomsky sued obama were set to bring their case all the way the supreme court but many were devastated to see that the highest court in the land decided not to hear the case cemented yet another massive erosion of the constitutional rights of americans over the corporate media has been largely silent on the issue people have been mobilizing on a grassroots level to bring awareness and fight the n.d.a. and a local level i'm joined now by such activists dan johnson founder of pandora the people against the n.b.a. what's going on dan nice to have you on the show thank you so much and we're coming up on the anniversary of corporate signed into law in england you know abolishing the present without trial but for people why are we regress to four hundred years here where you see governments throughout history have always placed this and in me for example you have in nazi germany you had communism or always blame the communists and everything and today we have terrorism today we have this ambiguous